Birdwatch West Cork Branch Committee member Damaris Lysaght gives an insight into the charming habits of the long-tailed tit They’ve never visited my bird table – yet! – though a few friends of mine are honoured with their presence on their feeders. It’s quite likely that the first indication that […]
A group from ‘Waste Not, Want Not’, including the Women’s Shed, Tidy Towns, Community Resource Centre and Clonakilty FET representatives visited Forge Hill Recycling Centre in Cork on Friday, February 28. The trip was both informative and eye-opening! As a group, we were curious to learn more about how waste is managed […]
Following on from last month’s article on the vacant and derelict property grants, Ruairi Kay speaks with Paul Deane about his experience with the grant in upgrading his home in Clonakilty I first met Paul in May of 2024, when I completed a home energy assessment for him under the […]
There was a piece on RTE Radio 1’s ‘Sunday Miscellany’ a few weeks ago by Hugh Wheldon, a young Irish volunteer with the environmental organisation Sea Shepherd. He was aboard the ship ‘Allankay’, in the Antarctic, and talked of icebergs and polar sunsets, Cape Horn and Drake’s Passage, orcas and […]
As we move further into spring, most farmers will have a good handle on the area they will be farming for the year ahead. Most of the new land that comes up for lease tends to appear on the market in the first quarter of the year but, in recent […]
After Trump won the USA presidential election, I promised myself that I wasn’t going to allow my 2025 articles become dominated by his political journey. However, he unleashes so much global negativity on a daily basis, that’s its difficult to navigate from the political chaos he is causing internally and […]